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The Taurus Express (Turkish: Toros Ekspresi) is a passenger train named after the Taurus Mountains in Southern Turkey. It was launched in 1930 by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits and originally connected Istanbul with Aleppo , Tripoli (for connections to Palestine ) and Nusaybin (for connections to Iraq ).
This is a route-map template for the Taurus Express, a passenger train in Turkey.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
English: (red) Route of Taurus(Toros) Express in 1930. (red dotted) Extensions and route changes. (blue) Simplon Orient-Express and Haifa-Cairo Express. (black) Narrow gauge railways. (gray dotted) Road and sea connections.
After the second world war, the Wagons-Lits company gradually withdrew and operation of the Taurus Express was taken over by the Turkish, Syrian and Iraqi state railways. Up until the late 1980s, a twice-weekly Istanbul-Baghdad service was maintained, with weekly through seating cars from Istanbul to Aleppo.
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